Use "heathenish" in a sentence

1. 13 Now such was the height of Greek fashions and increase of heathenish manners through the exceeding profaneness of Jason that ungodly wretch and no high priest; 14 That the priests had no courage to serve any more at the altar but despising the temple and neglecting the sacrifices hastened to be partakers of the unlawful allowance in the place of exercise after the game of Discus called them out; 15 Not setting by the honours of their fathers but liking the glory of the Grecians best of all

2. 'It has been excogitated,’ the Sadducees would say, 'in recent ages by successive teachers, bent on moulding the Mosaic system to their own heathenish philosophy; and proving the thoroughly human character of its contents by its gross irrationality, its conspicuous injustice, and its frequent puerilities of interpretation

3. * Now this representation of mediation is not only directly contrary to Scripture but is essentially heathenish, and destructive of confiding love to God

4. Wherever there have been men whose souls moved towards the all pervading Light of God, 'feeling after and finding Him,’ under whatever shades of heathenish darkness, there, we must believe, has been the action of the regenerating Spirit, and there has been salvation

5. Books were rare and expensive, colleges were few and heathenish in taste, and the feeling soon extended itself everywhere that apostolic Christianity was a religion so much opposed to all men's natural ideas that it was hopeless to convince the philosophers of Greece and Rome, or the educated men who governed the empire, unless at least some compromise were allowed with notions more attractive and popular

6. Gamut, who had been a close observer of rites he deemed so heathenish, now bent his head over the shoulder of the unconscious father, whispering:

7. Few of them believed Elizabeth when she said that my linen masks were heathenish

8. To answer the question, therefore , affirmatively, as I perceive you have done, and to accept of, as authentic, such answer, is both heathenish, hypocritical, and devilish; and your reward will be according to your works

9. What avails it that you are Christian, if you are not purer than the heathen, if you deny yourself no more, if you are not more religious? I know of many systems of religion esteemed heathenish whose precepts fill the reader with shame, and provoke him to new endeavors, though it be to the performance of rites merely

10. For in their succourless empty-handedness, they, in the heathenish sharked waters, and by the beaches of unrecorded, javelin islands, battled with virgin wonders and terrors that Cook with all his marines and muskets would not willingly have dared

11. For though the harpooneers, with the great body of the crew, were a far more barbaric, heathenish, and motley set than any of the tame merchant-ship companies which my previous experiences had made me acquainted with, still I ascribed this—and rightly ascribed it—to the fierce uniqueness of the very nature of that wild Scandinavian vocation in which I had so abandonedly embarked

12. There was some heathenish, coffin-coloured old lumber aboard, which, upon a long previous voyage, had been cut from the aboriginal groves of the Lackaday islands, and from these dark planks the coffin was recommended to be made

13. They are wholly heathenish, but thus far it has been about as impossible to prevent them as it is to prevent a river running down stream; hence, the next best thing is to guide them